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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19rs, 1916.

The VICTROLA

FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.

MR, PERU LAMRE.

Mr. Percy Lambe was killed in action, in France оп Sunday last. The deceased, who was the fourth son of the late Mr. George Lambe, started his busi

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"SEA ROUTE TO SIBERIA.

OVERCOMING THE IOS DIFFICULT,

WIRELESS AND BEAPLANES

MYSTERIOUS BAGDAD,

ROMANTIC ASPECT OF WAR IN THE EAST.

The Norwegian steamers Heugastoel, The news that a British force is advanc 3,100 tons, and Eden, 2,000 tons, chering upon Bagdad and driving the Turks tered by the Siberian Steamship man headlong before it, writes Mr. Ernest Phil

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China, in 1903, to join the firm of Wismer month with cargoes of butter, hemp, flaps, touches the imagination of all who of half-past seven, because by six I have

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realise the world-wide aspect of the war. It is hard to divorce the mind from the three great struggles the one in Francs and Flanders, another in Russia, and the other in the Dardarelles. Yet tho sido. issues, so to speak, are of deep importance and significance.

For instance, it is a curious thought how the war touches cities and countries in the East made sacred by religion and glowing

with the remance of the Orient.

What the Daylight Saving Bill failed to do has been accomplished in the Lon don-district by Count Zeppelin. “I used to go to bed about twelve o'clock," said &City man. Now I go at ten o'clock, sequently I get up at six o'clock instead because there is nothing else to do. Con-

had enough sleep. I am beginning to make the acquaintance of my family, and I am thinking of learning Spanish.""

Up to the present there has been no alteration of the omnibus service, bub taxicab drivers have already made

change.

po joke driving Blong Erk

aid one."

well, you Dap you

you know the way. get along, but if you don't are very liable to miss your road. You. might also have an accident. I get out earlier in the day now, and try to get back to the garage by eight o'clock at fight,

It will be worse when the foge.

There come."

In suburban households, the majority

granted a commission na lot Lieut. in the become a matter of urgency. As much as have been fights upon the banks of the of London homes, the alteration in habits

Mr. E. R. Wedemeyer, who left Shang hai with the contingent that sailed on August 6th, was granted a commission in the 14th Reserve Battalion, Rifle Brigade,

on October 14th.

bia, in that Mesopotamia which was once the granary of the world and the site of the Garden of Eden, and later saw the

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course.

Theatres and picture palaces, where you go in and come. out out when you like, are crowded.

It is a bad time for the burglar. He breaking. His complaint is that even in has had to divert his activities to shop-

front which looks so dark may hide a

a difficult time. There are as many fires. watchful person. The fire brigade have to extinguish as usual and they have to get to the outbreaks at top speed. Travelling at such a pace in the dark streets the risk of collision is consider- able.

Before the war an evening stroll was a after dinner. popular recreation of husband and wife

They never dream of ið. now. The brightly lit shopping pro- menades of the suburbs are now no more. old splendour. There, is nu attraction now in a dark street with heavy, swift motor-omnibuses thundering along with little light showing, making one pause to think whether he has paid his insurance policy before daring to cross a road. “I ha taken eighteenpones Since SIX o'clock," said a tradesman in a populous suburban street as he locked up at eight o'clock last night.

of the train by which the applicant wishes to the navy. His wound is healing first rate, capable of bringing down 500,000 tons of that their home is in Asia; that they still They are but a dismal shadow of their

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at £350,000. The voyage they have made Mr. Lambe represented Shanghai in is regarded as an important event in the ||ëricket and Rugby Interport matches and history of the attempts to establish the was for some time Captain of the local practicability of the sea route to Siberia

by way of Norway and the Kara Sea Rugby Football Club. He was also a

This

year's expedition in. the member of the Light Horse unit of the fangstoel and the den has taken plax in circumstances which give it a new B. V. C. He left Shanghai on Christ importance, Owing to the Siberian

having been taken mas Day, 1914, having been recommended Railway

Tby the Russian Government by H.M. Minister in Peking for ively for war purposes, ал out. commission. On arrival home he was let for Siberian commerce by sea has 150,000,000 poods of wheat are held back 9th Battalion of the East Kents (The in the interior and enormous quantities Nile, where Moses lived and where is surprising Business finished, the min Buffs), and left England for France only of butter, hemp, flax, lineced, and other the children of Israel slaved in bondage. of the suburb goes home. There are fewer on October 5th last, being attached to produce are being stored at great The Red Sea littoral, identified with the visits after dinner than there were. Tea expense. Mr. Lied is already, making Bible story of the Exodus, is identified sine has become popular for social inter- the Gth Battalion The Buffs,

preparations for another expedition next Mr. George Bell Miller, of the Shangyear of a far larger scale than anything with our defence of Egypt. Turkish In the home, the household provides its own entertainment after dark. There is hitherto attempted. He proposes to send hai & Hongkow Wharf Co., Ltd., has out between 20 and 30 ships:

troops garrison Damascus and Jerusalem, more reading. There is more family. been recommended for a commission, and One very important result of this year's and from Dan to Beersheba the Holybridge It is discovered with surprise will leave on the 14th instant by the enterprise has been to establish the posLand of Palestine is permeated with war that certain members of the family ca

sibility of making use of the Obi river

ving. Hirano Moru.

Musicsollers and booksellers are as well as the Yenesei. The Obi runs like influences. And now, on top of all, doing good business. through the most fertile district of Con- we knew that in the heart of Turkish Ara-music-halls might be doing better, but tral Siberia. In previous years, how- ever, Mr. Lied left it outside the scope of his operations, owing to the shallowness of the waters which had to be traverson at its mouth to meet the river craft: On- experiment, however, this year Mr. Lied brilliance and the splendours of the Cali-this the prospects are delusive; the shop- Captain & F. Collyer, writing to a found that the difficulties had been oxag-

phate of Bagdad, the Union Jack is fight friend in Shanghai, states that he has gerated and that a steamer of 3,100 tons been appointed a Captain in his old was able to take a full cargo there. Theing for supremacy over the Star and Cres regiment, the East Surreys, and attached Yenesei needs to bring produce down to cent of the Turkish Empire.

much larger fleet of river to the 10th battalion, which is stationed its mouth at Shoreham, but that he has been boats, the expense of which, in view of detailed for recruiting duty in command the war, the Russian Government is un- Perhaps the first thought that arises is of the depôt at Kingston-on-Thames. willing to incur. The present beats,

the fur-spreading reach of the Sultan'a A postcard recaived from Mr. D. about 40 in number, are sufficient only to Empire. Its capital, Constantinople, be Palmer, who is at present at wood Farm, Stirling, bays that he has been On the Obi, however, there are 350 river Turkey as a European country. We for

West charge two or three sea-going steamers.ng in Europe, we are inclined to regard discharged from the army, and is joining steamers and 650 barges, with a capacity get that the Turks are an Asiatic people, of up to 3,000 tons each. This fleet is

look to Asia in the same way as the Jews Mr. J. Dixon whose mother lives in goods a year.

look to Palestine, and that the bulk of the WARNINGS OF ICE. North Szechuen Road, writes that he has Increased experience of the Kara Sea possessions and the flower of their army received & lieutenancy in the Duke of

route has resulted in a marked shorten have their roots in Asian soil. They Cornwall's Light Infantry, and in at preing of the time taken by the voyage. In nominally own Arabia, where the holy sent at Oxford. There was only one other 1913 the Correct was 23 days on the way cities of Mecca and Medimah are turned Shanghai man at the place when he wrote, from Tronsoe in the north of Norway, to daily by 200 million Moslem worship Mr. Dickie, of Jardine, Matheson & Co. the last port of call, to the Yenesei. This pers; and above the Persian Gull, where News has been received from Mr. year the voyages both there and back was the Bible rivers, the Tigris and the Andrew Jack, who is Aghting in the sccomplished in 10 days. The main dith-uphabe, was the land Babylonis Dardanelles.

culty in the past has been the prevalence and Assyria, they have possession of enor; of ice in the Kara Sea, and it has been

mous extent and of great commercial and overcome by the use of wireless telegra strategical value. This is the land that phy. Before this invention, it was impos-the German Emperor has always coveted MAN'S LETTER Sible for ships to get adequate informa FROM THE FRONT.

tion as to the conditions which lay before not only for its intrinsic worth but for them. Now the Russian Government has its political possibilities. All other out- this lets denied him, he built up hopes of us erected three wireless stations in Mr. Cyril Wilkie, formerly of Hong region, which correspond with a station

new Eastern Empire which would surpass kong, now in the Middlesex Regiment at Archangel. They are situated at in magnificence the tabled brilliance of the

the mainland, at Yugorski, on

the Moslem Caliphs. Do not forget that the writes to a friend in Hongkong:-Wentrance to the Kara Sea; at Vaigatch, concession for the Bagdad Railway was were last reserve, I believe, for the local also at the entrance to the Kara Sea, un signed almost immediately after the Kai FOR SALE.

attack on September 25th and we never the north side of the island of the same ser's visit to Constantinople, when the We have been name, between Nova Zemble and the butcher of Berlin embraced the bloody ESIRABLE COUNTRY RESIDENCE.even got a shell near us. DES

mainland; and at Mara Sale, on the minded Abdul and swore brotherhood with Standing in its own Grounds, situated in the trenches twice since then and are east side of the Kara Sea. The first the fiend who had sent thousands of help- at TAIPO, containing Four Rooms, out-offices. eto. Electric Light.

now out for a spell. The offensive in two stations command the two straits less Armenians and unoffending Bal For particulars apply to---

our front appears to be held up by the which give entrance to the Kara Sea and garians to a ghastly death by fire and approaching vessels can be informed by sword. And for what purpose! Firstly, THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST weather, which has been pretty rotten, wireless which strait is freest from ice to colonise Near Asia and say it with Ger

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Just fancy, I've been out here six and and what are the conditions beyond. man Kulture; secondly, to reduce Turkey It is proposed to equip the wireless itself to a state of vassalage; thirdly, to a half months and not been in an attack stations with sea-planes to help in in- There are only Lapsley, Braga and myself left at present actually in this vestigating the state of the seas and find absorb Mesopotamia fourthly, to cust Great Britain from the Gulf; and lastly. Company. Briggs got a job at Divisional vut in greater detail which way the io Headquarters, Victor at Battalion Head is moving and where open water lies, In to reach out towards India in order that quarters, Gumprecht passed through 10 and the Eden made ice two days on the be snatched from the British Crown.

this year's expedition the favyosteet if the moment ever arrived that gem could YEAR an Offer also Evers, the former being in

the 9th Essex and Evers posted

western side of the straits. It was feared If Turkey had not come to the war, if to tire

its imbecile Sultan had not been rendered 13th Middlesex. Wilson got on a ruining therefore that there might be much ice in course and has not come hack. Lobel,

But they were told by the Kara Sea.

a dotard by half a century's imprisonment why was in C Company, got an Battalion telegraph:-"The straits are free; just

in a harem, there would have been no at. Headquarters as Interpreter and Posts

tack upon Constantinople and no expedi Corporal. Hyndman hasn't left his

Mr. Lied considers that it is now pos-

tion to Bagdad, The Turkish Empire Company, i.c., B. So you see, they are sible to guarantee a through passage every would still have paid tribute to the Sub-

Central Biberia," he adds, year. all gradually going. The weather hore

19 lime. Porte, and the Turkish fing would hasn't got cold yet. I am quite well and the richest country one can imagine. It still have flown in Turkish Arabin, fit."

English only wants communications. people, I think, hardly realize what the resources of Siberia are. I daresay they will be surprised to hear that it has But the entry of the Turk into the war pepulous cities-Omsk, Tomsk, and has brought the element of romance into Irkutsk, each with 130,000 inhabitants or the strife. It has caused us to send en more--where you will find people going expedition up the Persian Gulf, up the A detailed account of the landslides to the theatre in evening dress."The Shatt-el-Arab, and thence up the Tigris Completely revised Schedules of Patrol

into Mesopotamin--in the bosom of one of the great classic rivers of the world, by where the dontes and minarets of Musom cities shine beneath the glowing suns of the Orient City after city has fallen, Turkish forces have been driven backward and at this moment Bagdad is the objective: Bagdad the mysterious and the roman- tie, the centre of Arabian culture nearly a We continue to receive letters on the thousand years ago the home of the Cali- subject of the employment by British phate, the city of that storehouse of East- insurance companies of German agents inern fere, the "Arabian Night"; the autral countries, says The Times. Ahome of the great Caliph, Haron-el-Ras correspondent in Buenos Aires, contends chid. that though oan important company has history.

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A FILGRIM'S PARADISE.

to the War Department by General GERMAN AGENTS OF BRITISH deserts fringed with palm and dete trom, Gritthals. In it he reported :--

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L--The undermentioned; whe jo nei tito Corps on 17th inst, are allotled Corps numbers and posted us follows:-. No, 1936 Sapper H. L. Stainfield to

Ragineer Company, 1937 Private E. F. Clayson to Right

Section M. G, Co.

No. 1936 Private J. Es to Right

Section 3. G. Company, No. 1989 Privato I. E. Elias to Right

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duties bavo heen issued to-day. Fifty-and Patrolmen, oxclusive of Patrol Sergeants and Visiting Patrols, will be required for duty etch right in the Control, West Point, Wanchai, Kowloon, fumati, Hunghom, and Peak districts and on the Water Palice Launches.

These duties have, as far as possible, hien arrangal so that men may be on duty in the locality in which they reside. Cases of inconvenience will be adjusted to any extent permitted by a proper carrying out of patrol work.

C. Companies are requested to leo that all recruits are fitted with uniforia, and warned for duly with more experienced men as early as possible. PARĀDES, ETC.

the result has been to maintain only what connexion of B former German agent, The whole country, indeed. is a paradise November 18th. Whole of No. 1 Company,

the slides left in the first instance. The white

except Recruits.

November 19th-Recruits of all Companies, and instructions in the use of the Service rifle for men of Platoons firing. on November 21t requiring sapie.

The

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thro best scores made by No. 2 Platoon, No, I Company on Sunday, 14th fusk were at follows instead of as previously notified:

-W. F. Ford

A. Fothergill

F. S. Ford

yo, 2 COMPANY,

77

72

71

R correspondent writes from canal is, therefore, physically clused Copenhagen that British companies still for the pilgrim in quest of tombs and 1mporarily.

And standing employ in that city German agents who shrines and holy relics. On the east side the bank is upward a:so represent German firais. In such amidst it all is Bagdad, once the home of of 300 feet above the Canal level and on cases this the business is divided by the Caliphs, the centre of a great Moslem the west side it varies from '000 to 400 tween British and German companies conquering fores, and above all the seat of feet above. The material in settling We do not overlook the facts that cesa civilisation which, in its price, was far and moving creates earth waves, with sionally in cuales where the Germann, advance of that of the England of its deep depressions, behind those being soan influcus is strong the German con-day. five to six hundred feet from the Caru 21 xions may have proved profitably, and And what of its future? The Kaiser prism with elevations of sixty to did that, even though desirous of transferringpanned it as the key of the Asian Empire. feet above the water surince. These the business, the companies may in such is hopes are dashed to the ground. Bag waves undoubtedly counterbalance the place, sometimes experience dificulty in Dad will pass now from Turkish, ule; it weight of the broken mag on either side finding suitable British Houses, They.

will never be the capital of a German and when removed may cause another have certainly already had plenty of vine, for the day when British troops Recruits of No. 2 Company are posted as similar movement. Henes the ingoitime in which to look around. But if sibility of making any prediction as to only because the retention of Gerran ter its gates it will surely become an out No. 1 Platoon-A, Gutterres, V.

And then, Dust of our Indian Empire. date of reopening until after the waves agents causes astonishment and resent- which now block the channel have been rent artong the British communities fed from the incubus of the Turk, releas No. 2 Pintoon.-J. M. Noronha, J. M-VË removed and the action of the remaining abroad, it seems the clear duty of eversed from the menace of Germany, its glory Ribeiro, J. Pereira, D. Santos, material is determined. Heavy rains British office, where is has not already may revive under the encouragement of materially affect, the movement.

done so, to revise its agency list with a leant and British ue, and Western in General Goethals advised the com view to eliminating completely the Auences may turn this fabled city into a manders of ships in canal waters to German element wherever this can be reat commercial emporium which will arrange to proceed to their destinations done without causing serious prejudice give it a new and abiding lease of life and by other routes.

to the business.

power.

No.

follows:-

J. Kew.

Barradas,

3 Platoon.-H. Hyndman, T. Cordelto... V. Franco, A. F. Castilho, L. Sales No. 4 Platoon.J A, Ribeiro, M

Ligores, J. R. Castilho,

F. O. JENKIN,

A. S. P. (Reserve),